A divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Hawaiian private school can favor Hawaiian natives for admission. The decision by a majority of a 15-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's decision that the policy amounted to unlawful discrimination.

In a highly unusual move, the CIA has fired an employee for leaking classified information to the news media, including details about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe that resulted in a Pulitzer Prize-winning story, officials said Friday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's inquiry into the $55 billion newspaper industry, which became public last week, is the latest example of "wildcatting," an aggressive new SEC enforcement policy that tries to anticipate problems rather than simply react.